'"The focus on all forms of trauma except economic exploitation has helped to disguise the problem at the heart of neoliberalism."
Catherine Liu is a professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Irvine, renowned for her incisive critiques of contemporary cultural and political dynamics. Her scholarly work delves into the intersections of critical theory, political economy, and cultural criticism.
Liu's publications include Virtue Hoarders: The Case Against the Professional Managerial Class (2021), a polemical examination of the class's role in perpetuating economic and social inequalities, and The American Idyll: Academic Anti-Elitism as Cultural Critique (2011), which explores the complexities of anti-elitism in American cultural politics.